Printing stuff in 3D is a exciting way to innovations. The research assistant Amit Zoran of the MIT Media Lab has printed a flute with this technology. After 3D software design the printing process of the first functional prototype took about 15 hours. The result ist impressing because of the complex structure of a flute (I think).
As Zoran said in his video “the new technologies can enable new designs that are not durable otherwise and may help to develop new acoustic experiences“. His design draft (at the end of the video) looks interesting and lets one divine many more devices we only know by science fiction romans respectively can’t imagine yet.
[media.mit.edu: MIT Media Lab]